Wonderful post today from www.peoniesandpearls.co.uk on our You & Me wedding/eternity rings!

A terrific post today on the very popular OMG Im Getting Married wedding blog for the You & Me wedding/eternity rings

A very flattering blog post by Modenus, this time about our You & Me rings

A good morning already, we have just been notified that we have received a dedicated feature for the You & Me rings at the Wedding blog of NotOnTheHighStreet. This is ‘very unusual for NotOnTheHighStreet to dedicate a whole post to just one product and comes as the team win Gift List of the Year at the Wedding Ideas Awards’. Find the blog here:

We continue to evolve the item we cant declare, prototyping/sourcing manufacturer’s/branding/protecting. The concrete poetry of patent abstracts dazzles and stuns in equal measure, when we can say, we will.

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See you there.

We decided to dance with the devil, follow our foxtrot here!

All 12 plates are finally finished, titled ‘I could just go to the shops’, they celebrate a want to make over a desire to shop. The above is a draft of plate 3 where were dancing/sloshing the dry sifted clay back into life. The first batch on 25cm wide dinner plates in a delft blue will be on show at Tent London 22-25th September.

A new set of clothes rails for Religion Clothing employing a delightful patenting material to accentuate the varying tones of the mild steel.

The Sienna Art Institute funded by Paul Getty III has asked Patrick to write a course description for a new undergraduate semester based product design programme. We’ll let you know as we do.

Our second collection will be on show this year at Tent London 22-25th September.

Karen Brady is charming, ever more so when her heel became stuck in a floor grill.

Watch out for Patrick and the child version of the Socks two seater couch and bed tonight on the Apprentice BBC1 at 9pm!

Keep an eye out for our new store, due shortly featuring with a new gold and silver jewellery collection along with other products seen here on our site.

We have been working on a patentable product for over the last year, our second batch of factory samples will finally arrive this week. All being well we will file our patent application soon afterwards, then we should be in a position to tell you what were not saying here!

While juggling other projects Patrick has also been spending a considerable amount of time drawing recently, drafting a story of illustrations for 12 plates. A draft for plate number 7 of 12 is shown above, check back soon for the full set available from our forthcoming store!

We recently completed a store install to promote the final Adidas Original by Originals collaborative sneaker collection. We were asked to devise a ‘shrine like’ centrepiece for the store to commemorate all of Ian’s influences centring around the KZK shoe. Involving a mixture of old and new materials, found and purchased objects (Lady Grey tea amongst other items), key quotes and memorabilia in a vertically chronological order. The ‘shrine’ is illuminated from its core while housing a revolving display to gently rotate the new sneakers.

Recording items of Ian’s are displayed in the window on purpose made plinths along with key vinyl records and posters inside the store. We had a huge amount of digital press on this project with some notable complementary comments.

Just some of the project press links as follows: Crooked Tongues, Hype Beast, Sabotage Times, No.6, Ian Brown.co.uk

We’re in the snow showered city of Berlin again this winter to oversee the second installation of the previous summers trade stand with of course a few graphic evolution requests by Religion clothing. Our construction crew removed half a day off their previous instal record for the 15 x 8.5 x 5.5 metre stand.

For gifts this winter we made a bevy of hand made candles, with double, triple, and quadruple wicks knotting into each other deep inside the wax. Using plastic soldiers, light bulbs, Lego blocks and x-men toys as moulds, neatly accompanied by our own Xmas Jam and Cointreau Marmalade. Sign up to our mailing list if you like the idea of getting a jiffy bag of jam and a double-wicked Wolverine through your letterbox.

This month we devised a fleet of new collapsible clothes rails for Religion Clothing. With raw welds, the finished rails were left outside in the rain prior to lacquering, to produce a rich golden rust over large areas of the rails.

Following the press we received at Tent both Patrick and some of our product have just been recorded for a BBC 1 show (Britain’s premium television channel), due to be broadcast in late May of next year. Viewing figures for this high profile show have been over 16 million here in the UK, unfortunately we cant tell you what the show is until its debut broadcast.

Regent Belt company is a long established traditional English leather firm of superb craftsmanship. In the last 10 years the business has concentrated on the regular fabrication of items for firms as disparate as Ralph Lauren and Folk but are seeking to re-assert their own product. We have been contracted to devise 50 point of sale units for concessions across the continent. Working closely with the client we investigated the factories works spaces, jewellers benches and traditional ledger desks looking to convey a balance of the firms traditional craft values combined with domestic and work setting’s Regents product will be found in.

Come see our 4 new products being launched at Tent London 2010:

- Pair O’ Socks Couch and Bed, New sock folding thinking

- Sunshine Clock

- Zoe Shade, a Zoetrope cartoon light shade, solar powered
downloadable cartoons courtesy of:

Peepshow, Illustration collective
www.peepshow.org.uk
Tomato, Graphic Design practice
www.tomato.co.uk
Emulsion, Architecture practice
www.emulsionarchitecture.com
6876, Menswear clothing practice
www.sixeightsevensix.com

- Coat Float, a floating coat hook with beer matt polka dots

Religion’s Bread and Butter exhibition stand continues to grow in size and detail this summer, while witnessing a carefully planned 30% reduction in transported mass and subsequent. Both our fastest and smoothest build to date.

The traditional English country quilted riding jacket firm are updating their image with a new collection. Exhibiting this range at the iternational trade fair of Pitti Uomo we were approached to devise the their trade stand for the Italian show. Taking our lead both from the new quilt pattern and the gateposts of the horse paddock and the Suffolk countryside we devised this locally produced solid beech structure that caters for significant rearrangement and growth of the collection in forthcoming seasons.

We like working with 6876 so much, we commence designs for a laptop case. Felt and plastic rivets, elastic and wood, you heard it here first. Out later in 2010.

A fishing trip inspires ideas about a new way of hooking coats…

In partnership with the menswear clothing firm 6876 we are working on a 5 piece wood collection of everyday tools and fashion accessories, check back for launch details and pictures of our splinters.

An interesting project to design a Scottish Whisky bottle for the Vietnamese market has grown delightfully into developing the entire bottle brand, label and logo for this specific and intriguing market place.
With the launch date set for September in Vietnam it has been a fast paced but rewarding project especially given our inherent love of all things Scottish and our partnership with Richard Rhys of the Pattern Foundry for this project.

We have also been coordinating and drafting the Religion and House of the Gods clothing labels stand (105 sq m) at the international bi-annual trade fairBread & Butter in Berlin, a 105 square meter stand. The winter’s area of focus was to work with Religion to develop a large metal frame adapted from housing construction systems, which more than halved the regular set-up time.